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arc uot acLuiapaiiied by evideucc that lubcrculosis exists in the herd, 

 others are accoiui)aiiied b}' insufficient evidence. The applications are 

 sifted very carefully, as many inspections are made as can be paid for, 

 and it is the constant endeavor to select for inspection herds that 

 are most likely to contain diseased animals. 



All of this shows that knowledge of tuberculosis and the desire 

 to eradicate it from herds are developing at a rapid rate in Penn- 

 sylvania. This tendency is seen not only in requests for inspection 

 but also in improvements in stables, increased care in purchasing ad- 

 ditions to herds and by the increase of breeding as opposed to the 

 purchase of dairy cows. 



THE POWEK OF PERSEVERANCE. 



By BERTHA I. THOMPSON, Tlonesta, Pa. 



The most important of all things in this world to one is one's self. 

 I do not mean one's selfishuess, but his selfhood, what we call man- 

 hood. Nothing in the universe can ever take the place to you or 

 yourself. AVhat manner of man one will be is, therefore, the all 

 important question. On it depends his final, eternal success or 

 failure. 



Success, like life, is a most momentous thing. Things destined to 

 endure are long in maturing. The success one seeks should always 

 be worthv of him; for the testament of nature and the testament 

 of the Bible have the same proviso: ''Whatsoever a man soweth that 

 shall be also reap." In order to reap, one must prepare seed and 

 soil. He must sow; he must cultivate; he must have long patience 

 for it; he must reap when the harvest is ripe. He who will not do 

 all these will not succeed. To do them requires much perseverance, 

 for casual eiiort will not accomplish it. 



Note how some men have won their success in life. It may not be 

 the kind you desire, but this is the way theirs came to them. Elias 

 Howe, the inventor and patentee of the sewing machine, received a 

 royalty of over two million dollars on his patents during his lifetime. 

 Mr. Howe spent five years of experimenting on the precient principle 

 of the eye at the point and interlocking of the threads. He was by 

 no means an extraordinary genius, nor a remarkable mechanic, but 

 at first a plain, plodding farmer and then an everyday mechanic, and 

 was considered rather dull brained by his neighbors. He saw many 

 months of poverty and privation, but he knew no such word as fail, 

 and by dint of his power of perseverance he made himself a name of 

 fame and a fortune. 



By the power of perseverance Abraham Lincoln plodded, studied 

 and mastered his way from the lowly life of a backwoodsman to the 

 highest place among the American people. Andrew Carnegie 

 amassed millions of wealth and Louis Agassiz won a place among 

 the world's greatest scientists. In the field of literature perhaps 

 no nobler example can be found than that of Elihu Burrill, who mas- 

 tered some thirty languages while working at the anvil. 



